Year-long deployments of small geolocators increase corticosterone levels in murres

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 466, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-7

  Elliott, Kyle H ^a   McFarlane Tranquilla, Laura ^b   Burke, Chantelle M ^b   Hedd, April ^b   Montevecchi, William A ^b   Anderson, W Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Common murre; Device effects; Geolocators; Thick billed murre; Uria aalge; Uria lomvia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BODY CONDITION; BODY MASS; COLONY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FEEDING; GPS; MOVEMENT; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEABIRD; STEROID; SURVIVAL;

CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC;

EID: 84867527029     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09975     Document Type: Article

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